keccers
@keccers.eth
The most expensive drug in the US is Zolgensma — and its early development was funded by taxpayers and charities, NOT industry. All of the riskiest work! Why should taxpayers continue to fund research? As a taxpayer, you fund the biggest risk, and your reward for that will be more of your tax dollars used to pay pharma the exorbitant prices they command for the drug you partially funded. https://www.propublica.org/article/zolgensma-sma-novartis-drug-prices-gene-therapy-avexis
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@nerdy
Then they gaslight us by saying the higher prices Americans pay funds the researcher. We should just abandon patents.
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keccers
@keccers.eth
I would be open to that for drugs. Anything is better than the status quo
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@nerdy
If a pill costs $.02 to make, it really shouldn’t cost more than $.10 at the pharmacy. We should make it culturally acceptable to just throw rocks at anyone arguing otherwise.
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keccers
@keccers.eth
I mean, it really is crazy what we allow 😂 In the story I linked above, the pharma co assembled a pricing committee that recommended a price of $900k for the drug in question. In other countries these recommendations are binding. In USA it is not. And that’s on how final price came out to $2mm.
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@nerdy
They should post the full names and pictures of those responsible at the bottoms of these articles.
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@nerdy
Also the FDA should be allowed to pull drugs off the market based on price gouging. And approve generics on the spot in these instances.
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